HOW TITA SUGGESTS A GAME OF BLIND MAN'S BUFF, AND WHAT COMES OF IT.
"Well, I hardly can," says Tita, struggling with her memory. "He seems a big man, with—airs, you know, and—and——"
"Trousers!" puts in Mr. Gower. "I assure you," looking confidently around him, "the checks on his trousers are so loud, that one can hear him rattle as he walks."
"Oh! is that the Mr. Warbeck?" says Minnie. "I know; I met him in town last July."
"You met a hero of romance, then," says Gower. "That is, a thing out of the common."
"I know him too," says Mrs. Chichester, who has been thinking. "A big man, a sort of giant?"
"A horrid man!" says Tita.
Mrs. Chichester looks at her as if amused.
"Why horrid?" asks she.
"Oh, I don't know," says Tita, shrugging her shoulders. "I didn't like him, anyway."